the world according to jeff goldblum (not scripted tv but were all hyped)

living with yourself

modern love

criminal

creepshow

crisis on infinite earths crossover (arrowverse)

man in the high castle s4

castle rock

Letterkenny s7

Rick and Morty s4 (no release date set, but 'fall 2019')

Disenchantment s1 part 2

Star Wars Resistance s2

The Morning Show (apple tv, likely fall release)

For All Mankind (apple ty, likely fall release)

and...

edit: theres a lot more great shows this fall i missed, so plz post them below and ill update the listedit 2: added some formatting because the list is growing so big! thanks for all the replies everyone - try to keep it toscripted tv shows onlyto keep this list from being too huge

‘Member the episode where the kids keep trying to lose at baseball so they can stop playing & start summer vacation? But the parents love it & keep pushing, and the other teams are better at throwing the games, so they keep winning anyway and having to advance and play more even though they just want out?

I'm not sure about their politics, but it is certainly a problem how often they'd tackle a social issue whilst contributing nothing to the discussion. Chef Goes Nanners is the first example I can think of, it was an horrendously bad episode and a sign of things to come. Here's a social issue, but we're too high and have no real perspective to offer, so lets just paint every side of this issue as one-dimensional arsehats and call it a day. I had stopped watching by the time that 'douche and a turd' stuff came up, but it was another example of that mentality. Not all comedians are philosophers, and they should play to their strengths.

Also, besides politics, the show has no real purpose or vision any more. It used to be this surreal skewering of small-town life, something you could relate to and enjoy. Judging from latter series, I'd be at a loss trying to define what the show was about in even the broadest terms. Characters are whatever the plot demands in the moment, and the show can't seem to go an episode without circumnavigating the globe. The constant attempts to up the ante also made the show tryhardy as fuck; again, I'm reminded of episodes like the one where Cartman fed some kid his parents, a sign of the constant forced edginess which would come to typify the latter seasons.

I think Jon Stewart is a great embodiment of patriotism in ordinary people. He's not a soldier or a policeman or a firefighter, not a politician or a public servant (although he does great service to the public), he's a comedian. His patriotism isn't shown in gestures like waving a flag on the 4th of July, singing the Star Spangled Banner at a baseball game, or hashtagging #supportourtroops on Twitter. It's shown in speeches like this, in his takedown of Crossfire. He has this deep and abiding love of country, and belief in the ideals of our nation. It's moving to see, and heartening to be reminded of in the midst of current events, when it's easy to forget the unity that was forged by those terrible events 18 years ago.

But insisting that Friends was intentionally derogatory or somehow more problematic than any other pop culture at the time is a silly exercise in false outrage. It’s okay to celebrate the show while also recognizing it as an example of how far we’ve come as a culture. And if you still need something to be angry about, you needn’t look any further than the here and now.

Huh, it's almost like the author comes to that conclusion too, if people actually read the article they would see that.

Fat shaming never went away, and when it was at its height its not like obesity started to decline.

We didn't shame people out of smoking cigarettes or into wearing seat-belts. We passed laws that made it harder to smoke and easier to see the negative effects of smoking. We passed seat-belt laws, and spread awareness of the risks of not using them. But yeah lets just replace the slowly growing obesity epidemic with the rapidly growing mental-health epidemic.

Fat people are already at risk of increased chances of suicide. Lets pile heaps of guilt and shame on top of that. Because everyone knows people are more likely to do something when they're bullied into it, right? Oh wait. We realized the "carrot & stick" methods of motivation were both ineffective and dangerous in psychology decades ago.

I just got back from living Europe and felt like I got a bigger picture of why it happens to America specifically, and the answer can be prettily easily assigned to one thing; work-life balance.

People make fun of the Europeans a lot for going all the strike all the time, or in the case of the French, straight revolting; but they also don't work 2-3 jobs, 50-60 hours a week at the same levels we do (not saying it doesn't happen, but it seems WAY more the norm for us). Then compound that problem with our infrastructure; it's completely built around a car that you have to stress out about if it falls apart and that you have to drive while sitting in traffic. And their public transportation is good. It's not "The red line is down" fuckery that is the masshole of America known as Boston or even now the (insert rant about the NY subway by New Yorkers themselves cause they'll rant in a more informed manner than I ever could). Jesus my roommate teaching in Barcelona got a job and said "well, it's on like the other side of the city so that just means I have to wait 18 min to get to work, and I can lesson plan in the train." Compare that to the American who sits in traffic listening to and hour long podcast cause that's the only time they have to relax from their 2-3 jobs. Which person will have the actual energy to cook?

Then compare WHERE our food is coming from. I waited tables in this one place 6 years ago with a LOT of Eastern Europeans (Serbian, Croatian, Romanian) and the one thing they said they hated most was how shit our bread is. "It's so sweet. Why do you put sugar in fucking bread?" And when you think about it, the amount of sugar and high fructose corn syrup in so much of the food we eat is nauseating. And we're too tired to cook so of course we eat the microwave ready in seven minutes food that's killing us. And the reason we let it happen is because we believe corporations are out for our public good, and we let the corn and sugar industry slowly poison us to death.

So how do we fix it?

You do what the Europeans do.

You start striking and unionizing to demand better work life balance so you actually have time to cook and get paid well enough that you don't have to work 2-3 jobs 50-60 hours a week.

You vote in politicians at local to federal levels who stand up against big agri-businesses. There shouldn't be a monopoly on sugar and corn to put it in EVERYTHING you eat.

You support public transportation at every step. Elon Musk wants you to believe electric cars are the future because he can sell you those and make a fortune doing so. But who needs an electric car when there's a public transportation so good you can either get anywhere in the city on such a regimented time schedule that the Japanese are proud of.

After that, I want you to imagine having a rail system so efficient that you never have to get groped by TSA for a Boston to DC trip again because it will take about 3 hours and you don't have to show up 2 hours early to do so.

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Edit 2: for those saying "bUt eAst aSians wOrK sO mUch" just remember how bad their alcoholism is. Because they have a better public transportation system they can drink themselves to death. Because of cars and DUI's, we eat ourselves to death.

edit 3: Silver. SILVER? YOU FOUND MY ONE WEAKNESS AAAAHHH MY WEREWOLF POWERS ARE WEAKENING. Seriously though, while thankful, one silver comment on reddit won't change anything. Unionizing, striking, holding your politicians accountable to their constituents, and using that silver money to donate to a politician who doesn't have any corporate backers will do far more good.

edit 4: triple gold triple silver did you bastards not see edit 3. go buy some pizza for the guys in kentucky blocking a railroad in a pay protest

edit 5: for those saying public transportation isn't feasible here, if America can go to the fucking moon with a computer weaker than your phone now we can build public transportation in this country you fuck. Let Henry Fascist Ford roll in his grave.